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Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Develop and prioritize supply chain and procurement business strategies to grow the business through partnerships and cooperative deals that drive sustainable profit & revenue growth.
• Establish processes and standards; review negotiated terms and conditions
• Deliver on procurement team’s formal financial commitments thus realizing cost savings and profit & loss impact.
• Interface with business teams to prioritize distribution and supplier development needs to improve availability and cost competitiveness while eliminating supply constraints.
• Drive distribution, and supplier selection through robust RFP and qualification processes.
• Assess new and existing distributor and supplier capabilities to meet product, cost, quality, and capacity.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Oversaw, designed and implemented the UK and Mainland Europe distribution and customer service operation for Mattel through 6 Distribution centers under a single Customer and Transport Management Service operation from.
• Pioneered the revenue by12 % and grew the EBIT by 20 %
• Captured a score of 80% from active leadership and 82% from employee engagement from the Employee Opinion Survey.
• Saved 6% from regional logistics spend and expenses
• Improved KPI’s by 8% in the first year for OTIF.
• Established 13 different language speaking (native level) supply chain experts in Istanbul from inexperienced individuals in 1 year.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Increased the revenue by 9 % Revenue and boosted by16 % the EBIT growth
• Accomplished to save 7 % saving from regional logistics spend
• Established a centralized Continuous Improvement team and generate 3.2 M EUR valued saving projects
• Strengthened KPIs between 3-5 % in all accounts from an OTIF point of view.
• Restructured and transformed the Slovakia team operationally and built a talent and succession planning structure in one year.
• Succeeded 81% Active leadership and 80% employee engagement score from Employee Opinion Survey

Istanbul, Turkey

• Lead and implement 4 centralized consolidation centers for Koc Group in Europe.
• Established an inbound to manufacturing material synchronization planning structure for group companies and reduced costs.
• Executed a supply chain gravity center analysis and set up 4 cross docks in mainland Europe
• Selected best performer suppliers/vendors and applied operational & financial processes of 4 cross docks in 3 months

Istanbul, Turkey

• Designed an export business flow by implementing an export planning system. Awarded best export operation in MEA Region
• Created a documentation process flow and educed the custom clearance duration by 20%
• Reduced landed cost of raw materials by 14%
• Strengthened OTIF scores of finished product operations by 12%
• Overhauled on-time delivery performance for raw materials by 11%
• Gained 86% Active leadership and 83% employee engagement score from Employee Opinion Survey.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Established an opportunity assessment tool to reduce onboarding of newcomers to the team
• Created a customized ‘cost optimization engine'
• Established a culture based on 6-Sigma lean & Project Management Principles
• Implemented Kanban system at a warehouse in one month
• Established a KPI measurement structure in the first phase
• Set up tailor-made operational processes for tobacco warehouses

• Implemented improvements of warehouse operations and sequencing software.
• Prepared weekly actual budget and yearly forecasted budget.
• Coordinated the urgent shipments of the production deviations.
• Performed as a quality management system auditor for the company